When the Canadian Anti-Hate Network once described itself as “modelled after, and supported by” the US-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Canadian government should have taken notice. Today, that connection deserves renewed scrutiny.
The SPLC, founded in 1971, says it was created to ensure “that the promise of the civil rights movement became a reality for all.” It became notorious, however, for branding mainstream religious and conservative organizations as “hate groups.”
